This years holiday season was the BEST ever!!! I truely enjoyed every second of it! We all celebrated Thanksgiving at my mom's house. Even Juven's parents and sister came. It was truely amazing to all be together! I had not been with my family on Thanksgiving since we moved to Arizona so it was extra special. I gave my thanks to everyone and of course started crying because we just have too many blessings for words to encompass.

Christmas was soooo much fun! The kids had a blast and so did we. This year I wanted a real tree but had to talk Juven into it. After some not so pretty discussions we ened up with a real tree. I also put up a small artificial tree I had in the dining room. The real one was so beautiful and it smelled so good! However- a few days before Christmas I started noticing litting black bugs coming out of the tree. I picked one up and it exploded in my hand. YUCK! After further investigating we discovered the tree was infested with spiders that looked like beetles!!! It was sooooo disgusting! Juven and I both freaked out but had to be adults to protect our kids and somehow got it out of the house standing up still in the tree stand! Once Juven got it out he knocked it over and realized there were HUNDREDS of them!!!!!!! EEUUUWWWWWW!!!!

Anyhow- we got the mess cleaned up and moved the little tree into the living room for Santa. Thank goodness for that tree or we would of had to go out and buy a new one.... artifical of course! This has scarred us from getting another real tree again!

New Years was fun too! We went to The Robertson's for a little while and enjoyed friends and good food but came home early to get the kids to bed. We didn't even stay up until mid night!

Livvy & Luke! : )

One year old!!!!!! Can not believe it!!

Luke's first day of school!! First grade!!

We are fortunate to be able to walk to scholl! We all love it!!

Luke & Kyndall are in the same grade!

Our house is older and so is the pool! It was not like this when we bought it but all the tile was falling off so we had to have it retiled & this was the mess it made.

Olivia's 11 month picture. She is getting so big!!

We had a wonderful summer! Mom, Jennifer, Luke, Kyndally, Olivia, & Jennifer's dog Roony packed up and drove 8 hours to Port Aransas for about 5 days. We had the BEST time!! We use to vacation there when we were little and it was so neat to go back with our own children! It is a trip we will take every summer!


This last picture is Olivia's 10 month picture.

So I haven't posted in a while. There are a few reasons... one being no one ever reads this blog anymore. Two- I was having a hard time talking about our personal life on the internet. Three- I didn't really make the time. However the other day I was reading back over the entries from several years ago and it made me happy that I had such special memories recorded. Things that I had forgotten about and during a time when we were going through a big transistion. So, I decided to start up again even if no one reads it. It is for our family and a sort of journal of our life together.

Livvy's nine month picture. Luke and Buddy Bear. Look at that smile!!

Livvy's eight month picture.

8 month pics.

Well it seems I have fallen behind again... Juven's territory got changed and we are back at home in TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!! We are beyond happy!!!! Livvy is nine months old already and Luke graduated from Kindergarten.

We have been home since the end of April. Luke had about 5 weeks in his new school. We tried to plan it that way in order for him to make some new friends before 1st grade starts. He did great with the transistion! The first couple of days were a little tough but he loves school and loved his new teacher. We were to grateful everyone that made him feel so welcome.

Olivia finally started sitting up at 8.5 months. She is eating all kinds of table food and is trying to push around on the floor. It won't be long before she is crawling. I am loving her not being mobile at the moment! She has grown a ton since we got here. When we first arrived she was sleeping a lot and I was getting worried but I finally realized she had a HUGE growth spirt. We go for her 9 month check up next week but I am very sure she has made up for being a little preemie and then some. She is already wearing some 12 month clothes!

It is so nice to have family around! I can't even explain it!!! I see my mom or sister or both every day!!! Also- Juven's parents are only 3 hours away an have been to see us or should I say the kids several times.

Last week Luke has his first program at school for Earth Day. He had his own special part to say into the microphone and did it perfect!! The pic above is the class marching into the cafeteria.

Luke is on the front row waving at me!

Still posing for the camera!

Luke and his buddy Rocco after the show. They had soooo much fun!

Luke, Rocco, and their teacher Mrs. Taylor.

This crazy girl likes to put her toes in her mouth while she is eating!

Livvy's first cook out!

Seven months old and enjoying some carrots! She is almost sitting up and starting to babble more! She is just so funny and makes us laugh all the time!